Markets

• January 2022 Crypto On-Chain Digest - Kraken
• Bitcoin drops to six-month low as investors dump speculative assets - Financial Times
• Crypto stocks sink as Bitcoin tumbles to new six-month low - Financial Times
• Bitcoin Price Falls Below $35,000 in Tandem With Stock Selloff - WSJ
• MicroStrategy to Continue Buying Bitcoin Despite Market Tumble, CFO Says - WSJ

Ecosystem - El Salvador

• El Salvador purchases more bitcoin worth $15 million on market dip - theblockcrypto
• IMF Urges El Salvador to Discontinue Bitcoin’s Legal Tender Status - Coindesk
• IMF directors urge El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender - theblockcrypto
• IMF Executive Board Concludes 2021 Article IV Consultation with El Salvador - IMF
• Nayib Bukeles - Twitter

Regulation - US

• SEC Scrutinizing Crypto Firms Over Interest-Paying Services - Coindesk
• Biden Administration to Release Executive Order on Crypto as Early as February - Coindesk
• CFTC Orders Event-Based Binary Options Markets Operator to Pay $1.4 Million Penalty - CFTC

Ecosystem - VC

• Fireblocks raises $550 million in Series E funding, now valued at $8 billion - theblockcrypto
• FTX.US scores $8 billion valuation in its first funding round - theblockcrypto

Ecosystem - McDonald’s

• McDonald’s - PlanB
• Crypto - McDonald’s
• Elon Musk: “I will eat a happy meal on tv if @McDonalds accepts Dogecoin” - Twitter
• McDonald’s: “only if @tesla accepts grimacecoin” - Twitter
• Fake Grimacecoin Jumps 285,000% After McDonald’s’ Tesla Joke - Coindesk
• McDonald’s jumps on Bitcoin memewagon, Crypto Twitter responds - cointelegraph

Altcoin - Stablecoin

• Diem to Sell Assets to Silvergate Bank for $200M - Coindesk
• Meta to wind down stablecoin project Diem with $200 million asset sale - theblockcrypto
• Diem Reportedly Trying to Sell Assets—Is This the End of Facebook’s Stablecoin Ambitions? - Decrypt

Regulation - Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

• U.S. Digital Currency Could Preserve Dollar Supremacy: Bank of America - Decrypt
• Bank of Korea Says First Phase of CBDC Test Completed Successfully - Coindesk

Ecosystem - Mining

• Kazakh Crypto Miners Cut Off From Electricity Supply Until End of January - Coindesk
• Putin Says Russia Has ‘Competitive Advantages’ in Bitcoin Mining - Decrypt

Ecosystem - Binance

• Crypto giant Binance kept weak money-laundering checks, documents show - Reuters

Ecosystem - Altcoin

• Traders are complaining about Solana’s performance - theblockcrypto
• Polymarket Introduces New Information Markets After CFTC Fine, but Not for US Traders - Coindesk

Ecosystem - DeFi

• DeFi protocol Wonderland is allegedly run by QuadrigaCX co-founder - theblockcrypto

Ecosystem - NFT

• OpenSea Bug Allows Attackers to Get Massive Discount on Popular NFTs - Coindesk

Digital Gold Institute

• Intervento di Ametrano a Crypto Coinference - DGI
• Intervista di Eugenio Benetazzo a Ametrano - DGI
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• 2022Q4 Report - DGI
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